You don't have to like Professor Sperling.
He's sitting there a bit stubborn in his three-piece suit.
Inhibited empathy.
He knows no self-doubt.
He's a doctor, he heals, he saves lives.
Point.
At the end of “God”, the fictional debate by Ferdinand von Schirach filmed by Lars Kraume before the German Ethics Council, in which Professor Sperling is involved as the highest representative of the medical caste, would not be about human dignity, the value of life for the community and Voted his right to self-determined death, but awarded a popular prize, Götz Schubert, who plays Sperling, would have lost after just three sentences.